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Cereus spegazzinii




Wearing its winter hues


     Native to southern South America Cereus spegazzinii is a thin stemmed columnar cacti that forms a low branching bush, usually with the help of other vegetation. It has beautifull marbled blue stems that turn red and purple in winter. Also a night bloomer it gets flowers as big as other Cereus, 5 to 6 inches long and 4 inches in diameter. The site of those huge flowers on such a thin stemmed plant must be truly magnificent!
     I only have a small cutting of normal C. spegazzinii so untill it grows somewhat larger I'll use this page to showcase my crested specimen instead. Click below for more pictures.





Summertime in the garden


     I took a cutting in fall of the double branch right in the center of the right hand picture. I called it "Horse Heads" for obvious reasons. Click below for some pictures of it now, July 2006. It's starting to fan out nicely.



A view
from the front
A view
from the back
A view
from the side
A view
from the other side
All images and text are copyright 2006 D.S. Franges, unless otherwise noted.